Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 07:11:55 +0200 (EET) From: Heikki Suonsivu <hsu@clinet.fi> To: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@freebsd.org> Cc: Heikki Suonsivu <hsu@clinet.fi>, Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.DIALix.COM>, FreeBSD-gnats@freefall.freebsd.org, freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern/1698: sup from around 21:51 GMT 28th very unstable (mmap, maybe?) Message-ID: <199611180511.HAA13266@katiska.clinet.fi> In-Reply-To: <28113.848289326@orion.webspan.net> References: <199611170855.KAA25317@katiska.clinet.fi> <28113.848289326@orion.webspan.net>
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Gary Palmer writes: > <199611170855.KAA25317@katiska.clinet.fi>: > > Has anyone got a news server running reliably with kernels later than end > > of August (preferably ones with tag RELENG_2_2) ? It seems odd that I can > > repeat this so easily, I would assume a lot of people should see this ? I > > have gotten metoos from (only?) three people now. This problem has been > > there for about 2 months now. > > root@news:~> uname -a > FreeBSD news.webspan.net 2.2-CURRENT FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT #0: Sat Nov 2 13:36:08 EST 1996 gpalmer@news.webspan.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/NEWS i386 > root@news:~> uptime > 10:53PM up 12 days, 9:09, 13 users, load averages: 1.20, 1.18, 1.17 > root@news:~> > > > The system is 3940, seagate Hawks for news disks, P120 ASUS TritonII, 96M. > > Exports two NFS disks (not the news partitions). > > Try putting `AHC_FORCE_PIO' in your config file and see. From GENERIC: > > options "AHC_FORCE_PIO" # Some motherboards choke on MemI/O, > # so use PIO in the ahc driver in the > # generic kernel. > > Personally, on a Tyan Titan Pro M/B, I've got no problems without this > option in place. What happened after end of August ? Was ahc driver using PIO by default ? Is there a list of motherboards which have been verified to work/not work ? > Gary > -- > Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member > FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info -- Heikki Suonsivu, T{ysikuu 10 C 83/02210 Espoo/FINLAND, hsu@clinet.fi mobile +358-40-5519679 work +358-9-43542270 fax -4555276
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